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  ASTOUNDING

  STORIES

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  W. M. CLAYTON, Publisher HARRY BATES, Editor DOUGLAS M. DOLD, Consulting Editor

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  VOL. VI, No. 1 CONTENTS APRIL, 1931

  COVER DESIGN H. W. WESSO _Painted in Water-Colors from a Scene in "Monsters of Mars."_

  MONSTERS OF MARS EDMOND HAMILTON 4 _Three Martian-Duped Earth-Men Swing Open the Gates of Space That for So Long Had Barred the Greedy Hordes of the Red Planet._ (A Complete Novelette.)

  THE EXILE OF TIME RAY CUMMINGS 26 _From Somewhere Out of Time Come a Swarm of Robots Who Inflict on New York the Awful Vengeance of the Diabolical Cripple Tugh._ (Beginning a Four-Part Novel.)

  HELL'S DIMENSION TOM CURRY 51 _Professor Lambert Deliberately Ventures into a Vibrational Dimension to Join His Fiancee in Its Magnetic Torture-Fields._

  THE WORLD BEHIND THE MOON PAUL ERNST 64 _Two Intrepid Earth-Men Fight It Out with the Horrific Monsters of Zeud's Frightful Jungles._

  FOUR MILES WITHIN ANTHONY GILMORE 76 _Far Down into the Earth Goes a Gleaming Metal Sphere Whose Passengers Are Deadly Enemies._ (A Complete Novelette.)

  THE LAKE OF LIGHT JACK WILLIAMSON 100 _In the Frozen Wastes at the Bottom of the World Two Explorers Find a Strange Pool of White Fire--and Have a Strange Adventure._

  THE GHOST WORLD SEWELL PEASLEE WRIGHT 118 _Commander John Hanson Records Another of His Thrilling Interplanetary Adventures with the Special Patrol Service._

  THE READERS' CORNER ALL OF US 134 _A Meeting Place for Readers of Astounding Stories._

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